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If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it.
Andy Warhol

Nothing, Films, Surface

I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
David Bowie

Powerful, Passion, May

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.
Henry Rollins

Inside, Mountain, Trapped

Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.
Jonathan Katz

Found, Couple, Hiding

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.
Mason Cooley

Another, Lies, Appearance

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Carl Sandburg

Life, Giving, Fail

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
Charlotte Whitton

Sun, Face, Fall

I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and there is positive intent behind it.
Michael J. Fox

Good, Positive, Action

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt

Peace, Individual, Peaceful

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
Douglas MacArthur

Power, Home, Evil

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
Buddy Rich

Music, Today, Mind

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
Felix Frankfurter

Power, Real, Exercise

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.
Rod Stewart

God, Put, Meant

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
Twyla Tharp

Experience, Old, Optimism

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
George Santayana

Hope, Children, Pathetic

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
Javier Bardem

Technology, Selfish, Live

Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.
Katy Perry

Remember, Grateful, Wanted

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
Gail Sheehy

Life, Die, Before

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding.
Arlen Specter

Heart, Far, Cancer

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Great, True, Small

The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.
Benito Mussolini

Face, State, Liberal

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Robert Benchley

Ignorance, Someone, Argument

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
Virginia Woolf

Experience, Single, Thinking

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!
Zac Efron

Nature, Great, Best

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.
Mason Cooley

State, Reputation, Current

I am hands-on in any project that I am associated with. I just don't want to put my face or name and lend it to a product that I'm not behind a hundred percent.
Kim Kardashian

Put, Face, Name

The faster you go, the more students you leave behind. It doesn't matter how much or how fast you teach. The true measure is how much students have learned.
William Glasser

True, Learned, Matter

That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
Max Muller

God, Home, Reality

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
Susanna Moodie

Life, Hope, Today

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
Jimmy Carter

Good, Made, Special

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